User blog comment:Bartholomew Billberry Bowstring/Mossflower Country & Beyond/@comment-12048306-20130602125843/@comment-25220117-20130608165509

Covina, who hadn't left the safety of the hillock, roared out to the horde "SCALE THE WALLS! RIPTUNG, GET THE LADDERS AND HOOKS! VYRAL, HAVE YOUR ARCHERS FALL BACK AND FIRE!" ''The rats obeyed, some retrieving ladders and mounting them against the walls, others threw hooks-and-ropes across the walls and began scaling the fortress, and the archers, under a lean rat named Captain Vyral, matched the force of the deadly missiles with their own-Hundreds of carefully-fired shafts were returned upon the enemy forces within, though the rats weren't without their losses. A rat named Captain Riptung, the slayer of the ferret archer, and a rat named Ungrah, lead the bulk of the horde that went up the ladders, and the walls were soon crowded with vermin fighting tooth and claw''